Journal Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research (Gender, rovne príležitosti, výzkum) (Web), guest editors: Jaroslava Hasmanova Marhankova and Katerina Kolarova
Final deadline for applications is November 30, 2014
The CfP invites submissions for a special issue examining concepts and theories of the body, embodiment, bodymind and corporeality within feminist theory and research practice. Given the close relations between the development of feminist thought, gender concepts, and theorisations of the body, this special issue wishes to offer a space for reflection on the current state of the field. Inquiries into the ways in which bodies are classified, disciplined, normalized, deployed by biopolitical technologies, as well as the ways in which bodies become utilised in expressions of (conditioned) agency have been essential to the development of thinking about gender and gender order. Thus, the history of thinking gender coalesces with the history of thinking about body and materiality.
This special issue focuses on the import of the body and corporeality for feminist thought and research; it wishes to draw attention to the subjective (and subjectifying) experience of the body’s materiality and the ways subjective experiences are anchored in social structures and technologies of power. Likewise, the special issue asks how subjectivity comes to expression through corporeality and how the body itself materialises through various discursive enunciations. We seek articles that address the materiality of the body from various perspectives, as well as texts that analyse the body’s representations and narratives throughout different historical periods. On the theoretical and methodological front, the issue seeks to use the central and eastern European contexts and experiences to challenge and rethink the concepts of the body and corporeality defined by Western (and Northern) experiences and epistemologies. Furthermore, we wish to open up space for reflections of the ways in which the prevalent neoliberal ideologies and practices of power test foundations of body/corporeality theories.
Body/corporeality theories and approaches are, by definition, interdisciplinary. Thus, we welcome contributions from all academic fields. We particularly welcome contributions that are related to (but not limited to) the following topics and themes:
- Racialised/gendered/sexualised/disabled bodies and corporealities
- Somatisation of disability, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity
- Fat bodies, Crip bodies, Mad bodies, bodies out of proportions, perverse bodies, body and excess/body of excess
- Corporeality in relation to health, illness and otherness
- Gender dimensions of biological citizenship and bioethics
- Bodies as a tool of discipline and/or resistance
- Body and epistemology, embodied epistemologies
- Body and feminist critiques of ontology
- Body and feminist methodologies
- Corporeality, temporality and space
- Body, affect theory and materiality
- Labour and material corporeality, immaterial labour and global capitalism
- Gender and emotions, gendered emotional labour and body work
Please submit abstracts no later than November 30, 2014 both to the journal genderteam@soc.cas.cz as well as to guest editors: jmarhan@kss.zcu.cz and cakaba@seznam.cz. Mark the submissions clearly „BODY“ in the subject theme of the email. Full versions of the articles will follow the Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research submission guidelines (www.genderonline.cz) and are to be submitted by August 31, 2015. The publication of the issue is planned for 2016. Editors will be happy to discuss possible submissions prior to the abstract deadline. We also welcome book reviews, conference reports or other theme-relevant information.
Also, the guest editors will organise a workshop related to the special issue themes, for more detailed information about the workshop follow the Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research website in following months.
Source: FEMALE-L@jku.at